Chapter 391
"There are only Fengmei and mother in the Liao family. After I recovered from my illness, I had nowhere to go, so I stayed at the Liao family."
"Learn to speak like the people here and go fishing like them."
"Later, with my mother's help, Fengmei and I gradually got together."
Su Qingci listened to Su Changzhi talking about his past as if he was telling someone else's story, with no emotion in his tone.
Grandma said that my uncle was only a teenager when he went missing, still a half-grown child.
Alone in a foreign country, with no one to rely on and seriously ill, the Liao family was his only hope at that time.
No matter who is in that situation, they will hold on tightly.
Therefore, he stayed in the Liao family later, perhaps with a sense of gratitude.
After all, according to my grandmother, my uncle was a very ambitious child. If he hadn't gotten lost, his achievements would not be inferior to his father's.
At this time, he became the son-in-law of the Liao family in this small fishing village.
Su Qingci whispered, "When you couldn't be found, grandma went crazy and searched all over Kyoto. She even alerted the higher-ups, forcing the army to send people to help look for you."
Su Changzhi's lips trembled as he looked at Su Qingci nervously, "Is she, is she okay?"
Su Qingci nodded, "She's fine."
Su Changzhi immediately breathed a sigh of relief. After so many years, his mother was not young anymore. She had worked so hard when she was young. He was afraid that if he went back too late, he would be separated from his mother forever.
Over the years, he has been trying hard to go home, and at the same time he can feel that his mother over there has been trying hard to wait for him to come home.
Over the years, he has been having the same dream over and over again.
A woman whose face could not be seen was standing on the other side of the sea, looking towards this side.
Although he couldn't see her face clearly, he could see her gradually graying hair and her hunched back. She was always looking out, gazing into the distance with anticipation. Slowly, she was leaning on a cane and her steps were staggering, but she still insisted on looking out at the entrance of the alley and wandering in the distance.
Su Changzhi knew very well that if he didn't go back, he might never see her again. Calculating the time, she was already in her sixties, almost seventy.
She suffered so much when she was young, how long can her body wait for me?
So he worked desperately, taking on the most dangerous and tiring jobs. He even treated his wife and children harshly, wanting to save money to buy a long-distance ship just to go back and see her.
He ruined his body, overdrew his life, treated his wife and children harshly, and owed a large amount of foreign debt, but he still failed and even dragged his family into the abyss.
Unexpectedly, just when he was about to despair about this matter, someone came to him.
Su Changzhi, who was over fifty years old, suddenly burst into tears like a child.
He himself couldn't describe his mood at the moment. He just wanted to cry. Maybe it was because of his efforts over the years, or because he knew that the other person had not given up on him, or because that person was still there, waiting for him.
Decades of suppressed emotions and gushing feelings were all released at this moment through wailing.
"Woo woo woo woo~"
"I'm sorry, wuwuwu, you clearly told me not to run around~"
"Wuwuwu~ I was disobedient and ran away secretly~, Wuwuwu, I have been trying hard to go back to see you, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, you worked so hard to raise me~"
Su Changzhi has always deliberately avoided recalling certain previous memories.
At this moment, all those precious memories came flooding back.
When he was a little over four years old, his mother went out to work and left him and his seven-year-old brother at home. Seeing that it was getting late, his brother took him to light a fire and cook, but unfortunately he set the kitchen on fire.
The mother who had just returned threw her brother out in panic, then tried to escape with him in her arms, but they were surrounded by fire. The mother tightly protected him with her body. He could clearly feel his mother's trembling, her pain, and her fear, but she still protected him tightly and comforted him, "Changzhi, don't be afraid, mother will protect you, it's okay."
He will never forget that embrace in his life.
Later, my brother went outside to call for help, and the neighbors rescued them. He was not injured at all, but the skin on my mother's back, legs, and arms was all burned.
When he was seven years old, there was no food at home, so his mother took them to the reservoir to catch snails. He slipped into a puddle.
Mother couldn't swim, but she jumped in without any hesitation. He cried with fear. Mother tried her best to lift him above her head so that his head was above the water, but her whole body was submerged in the water. She was like a tall tree that stood firm, holding him up motionlessly.
When the people on the shore pulled my mother up, she was no longer breathing. They all said that she had died.
But when my mother heard my brother and his crying, she woke up quickly. She got up and hugged them, saying, "It's okay, I'm here. How could I leave you? Don't be afraid, I'm here..."
She always said she was full and left food for him and his brother. She always had endless work to do and was always full of energy.
She was very proud at heart, but she knelt down in front of the teacher in order to get him to accept her as a student.
She made herself a new schoolbag and said to him with a smile, "Everyone else has a new schoolbag, so I want one too."
He only discovered later that the clothes were altered from the new clothes that his mother had always cherished and was reluctant to wear.
My mother said that the sky blue cheongsam was bought for her by my father. He had seen her take it out and look at it several times, and then put it back into the cabinet with great care and treasure.
When he was sick, his mother took care of him all night long. His clothes were all sewn by his mother stitch by stitch, and his food was all saved by his mother's mouth.
His mother worked as a mule for someone else all day on New Year's Eve, pulling a millstone. Her shoulders and feet were rubbed bloody, just to make dumplings for him and his brother.
She said that Changzhi and Changqing were the most precious treasures God had given her, more precious than anything else in the world. She had suffered so much, but she never brought negative emotions to them.
She was very dignified and elegant, but she also stood in the alley with her hands on her hips like a shrew, cursing the bad guys who bullied her and her brother.
She is a loving mother, a strict mother, and a mother who provides a solid foundation for them.
Su Changzhi knew better than anyone how much effort and hard work that woman had put in to raise him and his brother.
But after growing up by sucking her blood, he distanced himself from her...
What his mother said jokingly at the time, "Changzhi, when you grow up, you can't despise me and you can't ignore me," became his lifelong sin.
He didn't. He really didn't ignore his mother on purpose. He wanted to tell that woman that he cared about her, loved her, and missed her very much.
In the backyard, Sigui heard his father's painful cry and stood up suddenly. Liao Fengmei grabbed Sigui who was about to go into the house.
“Don’t go in…”
Just as Su Qingci was comforting Su Changzhi, two men in uniform walked in from outside.
"Hello, we are from the Changlan Public Security Bureau, looking for Liao Sigui."
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